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SHERWIN-WILLIAMS.

PAINTS & VARNISHES

COVER

THE EARTH

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

(ESTABLISHED 1881).

BA ISOLE COPY: 10 CTS.

ANDERSEN, MEYER & COLLTO

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三拜禮 號登月弍十英港香 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1920.

TO-DAY'S CHINESE TELEGRAMS,

PROPOSED BIG KOWLOON BUILDING.

QUEEN'S ROAD FIRE.

ROBBERS CAUGHT.

Two Houses Destroyed.

Walked into Police Trap.

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MOTOR NOTES.

NO GAMBLING.

More Useful Hints.

Peking, November 30. After carefully considering the Japanese Legation's reply in regard to the protest against the escape of Hsu Shu-tsang, the Dairy Farm's New Structure

Ministry for Foreign Affairs has decided to maks another demand for the surrender of the other refugees alleged to be at present in the Legation.

The Cabinet begins to day to deal with the question of the cancellation of Military Pacts.

Shanghai, November 30. One hundred thousand dollars have been remitted to Shum Chun-hsun by the Peking Government for the disbandment of the various forces under his control.

10ther Early and Special Telegrams on Papers 2 unit d

TO-MORROW'S

MEETING.

To Consider Y.M.C.A.

Building Project.

Public meetings in the City

Hall are

nos

rences locally,

BILLIARDS.

p.m.

To-day's Celebrations.

Canton.

A big fire broke out at 42.30

Early this morning. Sub The proper way to tighten the If proposals which the Dairy Central. not very far from the officers in plain clothes made the johanged is to screw one on a little,hibition of cambling in Canion.

to-day in Queen's Road Inspector Murphy and a posse of rim logs after a tire has been Farm, Ice and Cold Storage Fire Brigade Station.

In honour of the total pro- arrest of four men who were con- then the one opposite, and so on to-day, December 1, there will be It's. hara in view come The call was responded to im-templating an armed robbery on around, each ing being tightened celebration under the auspices

to full fruition, construc

mediately by the whole brigade a house at No. 1 St. Francis Yard.jmore and more until the job is of the Canton Christisa Anti- tion will shortly commence in Kowloon on what promises to be the biggest building on the

a.sachai.

completed. If each lag is tight-Gambling Society. peninsula. The

to orect.

Un

of land at the

plan.

The contact points of the

1. That there shall be a parade

and the Gremen had difficult task

getting the Information had been previous-aned all the way before the rest, conflagration

control. ly obtained as a result of which a the rim is likely to go on a little Y.MA. attended by the Anti- under

At a uneeting yesterday at the is The fire raged furiously, and trap was laid for the robbers at skew. plot

two houses were completely the house, and as soon as the junction

Gambling Society, the Kwang- of Peking and Nathan Roads, Queen's Road Central, whilst the proceeded up the staircase to the ignition system of the surface of General Chamber of Commerce,

gutted. These were 273 and 275, latter made their appearance and

the Canton Students' Union, the tung Educations building (counting the ground fire also spread to No. 271.jest floor, they found themselves the motor commutator can bes: and other organizations, it was Association, floor) of six storage, the lower. The Brigade concentrated surrounded by the police and were be cleaned by what is known as resolved part to consist of shops and the other Doors of residential flats building and No. 277.

their efforts on saving this arrested without difficulty. On cuttlefish paper, which is finer There will be two lifts installed

being searched. a oumber of than the finest sandpaper. This at one o'clock in the afternoon of For two hours they worked dagses, gags and strings were paper cannot always be obtained December 1 and a lantern proces- for the convenience of residents. an Inter-Mess League

at hardware stores, On the ground floor there will consistantly, and they eventualty found on them. match played last evening the mises, together with two other

but is on sion in the evening, extending an aucceeded in getting the

The floor in question was occup-hand in dental supply stores. be the Dairy Farm's own pre-under control, but no: until the ied by a rich Chinese who at the Garrison Mess beat the R.A.M.C.

invitation to all public organiza. by 3 games to 1. The resultshops (one suitable for a very part of the ground floor of Nos. in his house.

floor top

of No. 271 and the time had $2.000 kept in a safe

tions to participate: lazze store) and garages for 1 and 277 were damaged, be- | residents of the Gats

who sides the total destruction of Nos, motor cars.

There will

413 ani 275. 4-roomed Mats

floor,

making

In

were as follows:-

common

but

occur. 03A is

GARRISON MESS (3) Q.M.S. Stanley Sgt. Major Stroud

150 be four 150 on each

of Sgt. Floyd

Sg:. Scoller Sg. Major Haynes

BA.M.C. (1). Sgt. Major Thompson S. St. Mann... Sgt. Woolman... Set. Wilkinson SA. Hollands... Sgt. Rogers

being held to-morrow at 5.15 Sgt. Major Carter p... when

project A considerable importance will be brought forward for discussion and decision. The meeting, over which His Excellegey the Gover- nor will preside, is being held for the

purpose of approving. if thought of the erection of a building for the joint use and benefit of the Navy, Army-and- civilian community; the appoint- ment of Patrons of such build- ing, and of a Sub-Committee for the purpose of raising the neces- say funds.

BAN

The highest break (32) made by Sgt. Major Carter.

are

The place where the fire broke 147 16 or 20 flats in all These will sundry dealers, and its origin is out was occupied by Chinese 150 be fitted in modern style, and we

150 gather that the rental will be at the moment not knɔwɔ. 150 moderate.

148

150

The new building, when erect ed, will be the most conspicaous Structure in Kowloon, the idea of putting up a. block of

THE WORLD OF SPORT.

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By keeping track of the oil con- 2. That all business firms in sumption, better efficiency will Cantos be requested to display be obtained from the automobile.dags and fire-crackers in honour If an excessive use of oil is being of the occasion: made, there is a leak somewhere 3. That the Canton Anti-Gamb- which should be fixed, or the en-ling Society be requested

to

JAPANESE POPULATION Sine is sucking up the oil into the establish a suitable memorial-to combustion space. This means commemorate the prohibition act carbon and its accompanying of the government. trouble and should be corrected

IN AMERICA.

Large Increases..

America

In California:

The Census Bureau gives the so many storegs being to secure

following from rentals some return with

statistics Donoghue has definitely breid (the number of Japanese. in regarding which to offset the huge expeo-ed nos to go to Indis diture on the Company's bew pre- mises in Kowloon. There will pointed captain of the Royal and

Earl Haig, was recently ap

storage depart-Ancient Club, St. Andrews. and it is intended to Georges Carpentier is said to be ran the store independent of the the possessor of a fortune of DANGEROUS FANATICS. Hongkong premises, so that in £80,000.

the event of typhoons customers

movement is on foot in in Kowloon will be in no way inconvenienced.

Revolutionaries at Work in

Scotland.

statement of the present position of affairs is to be made by-the Hon. Mr. P. I. Holyoak. following which, three resolutions will be proposed. The first of these, to be proposed by H. E the Governor and seconded by H. E. Vice Admiral Sir A.L. Duff,

A special correspondent of the K.C.B., is

Westminster Gegete in the West followsThat this meeting approves of the of Scotland writes:- ercation by public subscription offi There is no use in trying to Y.M.CA. billing 20 bblink the fart of the formidable nabaged for the juse of nature of the Red revolution Navy, Army and Civitans by a

ary organisation which has bee Joint Board of Directors."

stablished in many of the mini areas of Scotland, me-re espec in Blantyre, ligsto several centres in Fresh, William Gallacher. w

The Hon. Mr. John Johnstone will propose and Mr. G. M. Dodwell second-

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to form a club on the lines of our National Sporting lub. The plans, we hear, are now in Tommy Noble won the judge's the hands of the P. W. D. and decision over Johnny Murray in when they have been finally a fifteen rounds bout at Madison approved it is intended to begin Square Gardens. construction without delas. The building will probably take about two years to complete.

WARWICK COMEDY

COMPANY.

"Uncle Ned."

just now in America, is allowed Jack Johnson, who is in prison to indulge in boxing bouts when having exercise.

In

immediately.

your car.

Water,

It is understood that some government offices will also take

action in bonour of the anti-gamb

THE SINO-JAPANESE TREATY.

China's Programmeg-

Keep a bottle of ammonisbaody|ling order to show that the it, especially when testing the the public against the eril in the garage, for you might need fofficials are in favour of assisting drop spattered from the battery battery or paišiag-in-water.” “A

thousand men and twenty-six

solation will eat through your Forty-four clothing or leave a bad spot on thousand women, compared with;

the machine, If ammonia is thirty-five thousand men and six lize the action of the acid. Am. applied promptly it will neutra. thousand women in 1910,

monia can also be used to clean. seven hundred men and one battery terminala.

Oregon-Two thousand corrosion from connections and thousand three hundred women.f compared with three thousand

With regard to the atrinda of........ fono hardred men

Washing a motor car to main-the Chinese Government towards hundred women in 1910.

and three tain its fine polish and lustre is the Shantung question in relation In Washington:-Eleven thou-

like polishing your best furniture.to the forthcoming meating of the sand two hundred males and fire with the one as is generally taken dispatch to the Mainichi gives the As much care should be taken League of Nations, a Shangbai compared with eleven thousand car will soon have that old, worn Chinese Government is inclined thousand nine hundred females, with the other.

Otherwise, your following version. It says that the two hundred and seventeen males bok which you do not like to see to bring forward the proposal and females in 1910. It is regarded as probable that!

even on other machines. In the Hawaiian Islands the

of the cancellation of the Twenty- Dempsey and Carpentier, will Japanese population increased

one Daganda in the Sino-Ja meet on New Year's Day.

more rapidly than the number of

To maintain the newness of panese treaty as a sort of feeler, Abdallach, the Egyptian,scored whites. In 1990, 39.7 per cent.

therefore, the first and that when she is assured of Derby County's first goal on of the population was Japanese and grease as soon as it accumu-wards China the presentation of essential is to wash of the mud the goodwill of the Powers to- Saturday. It was his first apin 1910 it was 41.5 per ceatates. If the mud is not washed the Shantung issue will follow, "That the following gentlemen gripped by the polie autoor

pearance in the team.

while cow it is 42.7 per cent. of as soon as possible, ita alkali bat not before. The Mainichi's be invited to become Patrons of

The Somerset County Cricket The figures regarding the sexes, content would tend to leave io-message gives these items as "the said baliag:-H. E. The Loome back from M.com és

at a certain stage of the irang

Club's Weston-super-Mare Week compared with the Gernot (Sir R. E. Stubbs, E. C["Red" missionary to

previous a A cheery atmosphere will per-realised nearly $10,003.

two decades, show that there was surface. Do not rub off the mud, which the Chinese Government

eradicable spots on the polished constituting

the M. G. H. E. Vice Admiral Sir Scotland, and mor

convert vade the Theatre Royal when!

The value of the Derby is to be a

programme uch larger especially Uncle Ned" makes his first bow increased by £3,000, the Oaks by the number of Japanese women A. Daff. K. C. B., H. E. Major industrial Scotland, Lenin ha to a Hongkong audience on sion £2.000, and the St. Leger by £4,000, and girls than in men and boys by applying a loose pressure of of Nations

increase in but give it a thorough wetting proposes to lay before the League Geferal F. Ventris, C. B.. Com-designs on all the world's indus-jdag next at 9.15 p.m. He is a Pmodore W. Bowden-Smith, R. N., tries.

An America women's bocker The Japanese population totals water from the hose. genial, breezy fellow, full of fun team is visiting England next 109.259 out of a total of 255.512drive the grit and dirt into the Sino-Japanese treaty of 1915. C. B. E."

1.--The cancellation of the There are

under heavy pressure. now revolutionary and sentiment, and a thorouzh month,

would Twenty-ons Demands in the The third resolution will be centres in Lanaskshire, Fifeshire, optimist, who possesses the happy matches against British teams decade was 29.594, or 27.1 per and will play nine The actual increase in the past proposed by the Hon. Mr. A. E. Dumbartonshire. Ayrshire, and knack of making everyone cheer.in three weeks.

varnish.

2. The abolition of extraterri- Pollock, K.C., and seconded by Renfrewshire-all mining area. ful.

cent, as against 30.4 per cent. in

toriality. the Hom Mr. E, Y. D. Parr. It

M. J. G. Ritchie won With Sinn Feiners arming

the decade from 1990 to 1910.

In cleaning off oil from your 3-Recovery of lease territory. will read as follows:-"That the secretely in Scotland and openly codious niece.

He has an irresponsibly pre-world's covered cearts champion-

car ose separate sponges and including Tsingtan. following gentlemen be appointed drilling it not a few country dis seems to have taken after him in defeating R. G. Lowe by 7-5, 4-6. flapper, who ship at the Dulwich Club by

chamois for the body sad the 4.-Removal of foreign post- A Finance Committee, for the tricts where the eyes of the this respect. There is also a 6.2. purpose of raising funds for the authorities

are lax, and Red particularly charming and beauti- Caligula, the St Leger winner. erection of the said building revolutionaries "drunk" Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak, (Chair Lenin's deadly brew, spreading with "Ned's" heartstrings, and a He will be in India for about 15| with ful lady who plays "old Harry leaves Newmarket for Bombay. Iman), Mr. S. J. Stabb, O.B.E themselves all over the Scottish cantankerous

Hon. Treasurer).

brother. Mr. minefields, is it any wonder that ways are far from popular with England.

whose months, and will then return to

Lukewarm water is best for this! It seems to be forgotten by the Edkins. Hon. Mr. J. Johnstone, certain sections of the minors are the members of his family, whom

ase. It abould never At the afternoon session of the because the varnish is liable to that a review of the Twenty-Ons be hot, correspondent of the Mainichi Mr. J. W. Graham, Mr. K. E. kicking over the traces and acting Uncle Ned" has to take in hand would require a King's ransom" Liberal Federation, at Ayr last For the same reason, the hood Shantung issue.

Jess Willard has declared itannual meeting of the Scottish crack and the colour disappear. Demands would raise the whole Greig, Mr. J. L. McPherson independently of the Federation? and "prane" accordingly.

Hon. Secretary)."

"Miners," said one young and

to lure him from his Kansas farm month. Lady Bonham Carter said should not be washed while it "Dawkins" In addition to the speakers shire area, "don't wish to have humourist, and therefore a per- the over of eight balls in cricket of her depth when he talked in

intelligent collier in the Lanark-old character,

too, a delightful back to the ring.

that, like the Prime Minister, she is heated. vanapred with the motions given

ao unconscious! It is generally recognised that was not a sailor, and she felt out) ove it is expected that any dealings with Gallacher and fect joy to all, another young is bound to come. peeches in support of the only visitor the miners have bad husband, are all in league with success.

To remove the hardened grease crew. But Gallacher is not the niece, and her sacredly wedded ians have found i

The Austral-This Dautical imagery.

TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE. He bad from decided spoken of the old salts getting brakes, use kerosene oil on

around the frame and The closing rate of the dollar on delivered by from Russia. CG. T. Elkins and represent-visitors were who have seen the one long ripple of laughter and Swedish coach, is considering sa him on the deck for the storm wiped off. Soap should be used

We have had Uncle Ned" to make the plas

out of their bunks and putting on clean piece of ives from the Army and Navy. hellish trouble out there for wholesome sentiment.

Ernie Hjerterg, the famous their sou-westers, and joining kerosene oil should then be well

*waste. The demand, to-day wea ̈32./44d. It is hoped that there will themselves: men

offer from Yale University to She asked herself if the old saits only when necessary, not to make large attendance of the

who know The plans for the season are return to the United States and were the members of the present the job of washing easier. Soft coastal public as well as Serrice, have feld us the other side of the will be a change of bill back The international wafer polo a passenger, feel safer if they work, but where that will not

Lenin and his crew, and they now open at Moutrie's. There act as mentor to the trackteam, Government; if so, she would, as water alone can do most of the perature: 68, Humidity:-90. men, for the ashema is one that is deservids of every suppori.

story: It is not difficult to draw night, particulars of which will be match our on inferences, and they are found in our advertising columns. Scotland, in Paisley Baths on westers, and back into their bunks be used. One compounded on a between England and would get out of their sou-suffice, only a choice soap should not the Moscow International.

Saturday 9th Oct. resulted in a again. (Laughter.) Until they did base of linseed oil is best. victory for England by 7 to 3. the storm would not subside. As Paisley Town Council eater for the pilot, not only his hair wonder is that the miners are RECRUITING IN AMERICA, ained the visiting swimmers to was being bleached, but the bair after washing, clean chamois In drying the body of a car Yorking as they has been doing. they are not allowed to be quiet

dinner after the water polo inter-of the passengers. Dational. A few revolutionaries should be

until he left the bridge, the ship bing should be done in a straight Certainly, should be applied. All the rub dropped upon and departed. They

champion, did 60 seconds in the likes esfe or a straight course. claan by wabing in soap and C. K. Baillie, the Scottish would never sail or steer anything line. The chamois can be kept are a, danger and menace to the mining communities.

invitation 100 yards handicap st|(Loud cheers.) Mr. Lloyd George water, but be sure to wash out all Paisley, and gained thin prize was the greatest quick-cheng soap before it is put up to dry. Telegraphic orders have been from scratch.

artist in modern times. He, made sent to the Army recruiting. F. Esaurepaire, the Australian a great career in polities, but]; stations to recruit for the second champion, turned up as Paisley nothing to what he would haya division up to fall strength im and was enticed to girls done on the films (Laughter) GIFT OF AEROPLANES TO INDIA, and 9.15 pm. mediately.

hibition win over 200 yards. There was only one thing the Japanese Government intends to plained that under the provisions by secondic

The Chuo reports that the The War Department has ex- He broke the all-comers' record Premier had been consistent with, received a gift of 100 araplana

The GovNCIndia basi

To-morrow City Hall Public mee and that was his passion, and from the Imperial Government consider erection, to the YMCA büildinge

cheme will be

be

FOR THE POOR.

To-day's Sale of Roses.

On behalf of the poor caged for y the Society of St Vincent de kul, a street sale of roses has

ben bild in Hongkong and Low-

on to-day,

Lanarkshire is honeycombed

bagitators of all kinds, and the

JAPANESE DIPLOMATIC

ARRANGEMENTS.

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Second Division to be Brought up to Strength,

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A FAIR? CRITIC.

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We learn that up to 2 pm

ngant collected had coed establish five new legations, and of the National Defence Act oneA history of the forthcoming genius for class wat, Nhid, Makibat suvel. Emore fifteen

new constantne, and division of the army must be

chassis. In this way, the heavy offices.

road oils and tars that gather

5.-Withdrawal

more freely on the underbody troops from China.

of foreign

will not come in contact with 6. A revision of the Customs the highly falahed surface. tariff

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THE

IE WEATHER.

2 p.m. Barometer:-29,89. Tes

LIGHTING-UP TIME. Lighting-up time to-day is 5.38

p.m.

DON'T FORGET.

To-day. Coronet Theatre-5.15 and 9.35 Hongkong Theatre-5.157.15